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by arrrg 3y ago
What you say is all true and I actually completely agree with you (and like how you articulate those points – great to read it distilled that way) but at the same time probably not a good idea at all to do in most circumstances. It is alrig
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by arrrg 3y ago
I think you are really missing the forest for the trees. Everything you say is completely correct. But useful? Or worthwhile? Or even efficient? The goal is not to find out why some users are disoriented and some are not. Well, I guess indi
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by arrrg 3y ago
In practice you often cannot test that in a quantitative way. Especially since it’s about a state of mind. However, you should not dismiss qualitative results out of hand. If you do usability testing of the checkout flow with five participa
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by arrrg 3y ago
Ads are someone being paid to write/publish about something. Are you claiming that’s happening here? Also, I’m pretty sure a lot of the original photos are simply blurry (from motion) or slightly out of focus. Some of the other preview
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by arrrg 3y ago
That’s an absurd view if we are talking about real estate that probably has never been true (in complex societies but maybe also beyond) and probably cannot ever be true if we are talking about non-dystopian societies.
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by arrrg 3y ago
That makes no logical sense at all. Why go for $10m if there is no need to because you have already adjusted your own pricing upwards. Also, what things are priced at is not what they cost …
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by arrrg 3y ago
That was the model in the past, yeah. Is there something wrong with it? Expecting lifetime updates with your lifetime license seems weird to me. That‘s not a realistic expectation.
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by arrrg 3y ago
That was just a vocabulary issue, sorry. I’m not a native speaker. I meant heating with gas vs. heat pump, obviously not cooking with a heat pump, that‘s absurd.
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by arrrg 3y ago
Gas from the ground can never be clean. Electricity can. That’s why electrification is key to getting where we want to get. We need to both electrify and get electricity generation carbon emissions to zero. Also: electrification additionall
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by arrrg 3y ago
In my mind G-Shock is a brand of watch and there are many different ones. So the statement “Casio releases a G-Shock watch with fitness features” makes sense. “Casio adds fitness features to G-Shock digital watch” also makes sense. The “ori
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by arrrg 3y ago
Those lotteries generally do have a relatively high likelihood of getting you a spot. Paying $10 for a fifty percent chance of a permit vs. paying $100 in an auction does make a difference. I really don’t understand where your claim that po
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by arrrg 3y ago
That evidence is utterly unconvincing. Please pull yourself out of this mirage and away from falling prey to disinformation.
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by arrrg 3y ago
I don’t think you get the point. That UFOs always are outside the identifiable camera range even as that range expands suggests that they are nothing special. It’s actual good (indirect) evidence for UFOs being nothing special.
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by arrrg 4y ago
I’m really not too worried about that. The biggest issue I can see developing is a Gmail-ification of Mastodon (with a lot of people being on a single instance). That would be a pity – but in terms of freedom e-mail is still pretty great.
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by arrrg 4y ago
You don’t need to make it that complicated, really not. Mastodon can already be a drop-in replacement for Twitter for many use cases. The biggest hurdle are, as ever, network effects. Not infrastructure, not features. For me personally most
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by arrrg 4y ago
Germany in particular has been handling this crisis extremely well, showing itself to be much more adaptable than many feared. I’m very proud of that and I think cutting dependency on Russian gas – while we might not have necessarily wished
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by arrrg 4y ago
Ok, so you agree that the US couldn’t have done anything to prevent Putin from invading Ukraine. That‘s great. Could you then explain why it would be in the interest of European countries not to react to Russia invading countries on their d
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by arrrg 4y ago
How do you want to achieve that? What path do you see for such a solution? What you are suggesting ist just not realistic in any way. It’s pure fantasy.
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by arrrg 4y ago
How can the US withdraw from Ukraine given that they are not fighting there? How can the US negotiate a cease fire in Ukraine over the head of Ukraine? Can you tell me how that is even supposed to be possible? That makes no sense.
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by arrrg 4y ago
What are you talking about? I’ve been struggling with obesity throughout my whole life (BMI of 46 at my high point which is damn high) and never been particularly fit, strong, or into sports. I don’t have a car (though I could afford one) a
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by arrrg 4y ago
Just to be clear: Russia invaded Ukraine. I’m not sure why you are both-sidesing this. Also, who are you talking about when you say "both sides"?Are you talking about Ukraine and Russia? Withdraw to where? Agreement with whom? Ple
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by arrrg 4y ago
We need to get to zero. Burning gas doesn’t get us to zero. That’s the issue. Given the lifetime of gas furnaces and what we know about climate change it is madness to even consider using them in brand new construction now. Gas was and is t
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by arrrg 4y ago
Everyone (to a close approximation) is already reliant on their government for survival. Taking yourself out of society and its interdependencies is already basically impossible. (This is not an argument against all points you are making, I
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by arrrg 4y ago
We need to go to zero and gas furnaces cannot. (Horribly inefficient synthetic fuels excluded.) In that context current electricity generation does not matter. It‘s an infrastructure change that allows for future zero emissions. Just like E
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by arrrg 4y ago
Criminal proceedings for ex heads of state or government aren’t at all uncommon in perfectly functioning democracies. It seems to me that the US is more of an outlier in this regard, so this seems to me a positive sign of the US moving in t
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by arrrg 4y ago
That app is not at all a password manager. It‘s a view and editor for all kinds of stored keys. I don’t think its target audience ever were intended to be some random macOS users. That’s just not the target group. It‘s about power users tha
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by arrrg 4y ago
Is this you arguing that it‘s not buried? Having to access something via a search incantation (or, alternatively, a ton of clicks) is not at all easily accessible. It’s buried alright. Obviously you can find pretty much anything on macOS an
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by arrrg 4y ago
Does that matter? Seems weird to me to make that argument. I’m honestly quite confused by it. A bowling bot that threw strikes 9 out of 10 throws and a gutter ball one time out of ten would still be a great bowler even though no human with
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by arrrg 4y ago
Does that matter? I’m really very confused by the argument you are making. That you may have to babysit this particular aspect of playing the game seems quite irrelevant to me.
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by arrrg 4y ago
But the human (in the comment chain) here made exactly the same mistake! In that sense this test doesn’t seem to be a good fit for testing the reasoning capabilities. Since it‘s also easy to get wrong for humans (and humans also don’t alway

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